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Seminar January 2017

Ciara O'Shea from the Central Statistics Office will present at NUI Galway on January 26th . The seminar will be titled: 'Overview of the System of Health Accounts’

More details will be provided in due course.

3rd Annual Frontiers in Healthcare Conference: November 10th 2016

The Health Economics and Policy Analysis Centre hosted its 3rd Annual Frontiers in Healthcare Conference on Thursday, November 10, 2016.

The conference, which was once again organized in conjunction with Novartis Ireland, brought together an exciting group of academics, industry professionals and clinicians to debate and discuss a significant issue in healthcare. The theme of this year’s conference was ‘Real World Evidence: its use and potential in improving healthcare decision-making’.

Presentation Details: 1-2pm on September 19th, 2016 in the SAC Meeting Room, Cairnes Building

Seminar March 2016

Speaker: Professor John Cawley, Cornell University

Title: Incentivizing Nutritious Diets: A Field Experiment of Relative Price Changes and How They are Framed.

Abstract: This paper examines how consumers respond to price incentives for nutritious relative to less-nutritious foods, and whether the framing of the price incentive as a subsidy for nutritious food or a tax on non-nutritious food influences consumers’ responses. Analyzing transaction data from an 8-month randomized controlled field experiment involving 208 households, we find that a 10% relative price difference between nutritious and less nutritious food does not significantly affect overall purchases, although low-income households respond to the subsidy frame by buying more of both nutritious and less-nutritious food.

This is being provided on a strictly non-profit basis with support from sponsors including Abbvie.Registration fees will be capped accordingly for students and academics at 500 euro. It is aimed at early career researchers, post-doctoral fellows and suitably trained doctoral fellows.

2nd Annual Frontiers in Healthcare Conference: November 3rd 2015

In November 2014, the Health Economics and Policy Analysis (HEPA) research group at NUI Galway organized the first in a series of annual conference that address important issues in healthcare. The first conference focused on ‘Pricing Healthcare’ and featured speakers from a variety of academic and professional backgrounds from Ireland and the UK.

The second conference in this series, which is jointly organised with Novartis Ireland, will be held at NUI Galway on November 3, 2015.

The theme of this year’s conference is ‘Adherence’. We think that this is a critical issue in a large number of healthcare situations. A relatively simple example is how to ensure that patients adhere to the medication that is prescribed to them. Another example is how medical professionals can be persuaded to adhere to care guidelines. On a broader public health level an important issue is how people in general can adhere to good practice as regards diet, exercise and the consumption of tobacco and alcohol.

These topics and others will be addressed by experts from a variety of disciplines including economics, psychology, medicine, and pharmaceutical science and from a variety of perspectives including academic, health service providers, patient groups, and the pharmaceutical industry.

The format of the 2nd conference will be very similar to the first conference with presentations by national and international experts from a variety of perspectives. There will be ample opportunity throughout the day for contributions from the audience. The conference will be streamed live and viewers will be able to ask questions via email or twitter.

HRB TRN Workshop 2015

Dr Paddy Gillespie, from the Health Economics and Policy Analysis group at NUI Galway, will host a workshop on behalf of the Health Research Board - Trials Methodology Research Network (HRB-TMRN). This one-day course will provide an in-depth introduction to methods, techniques and use of economic evaluation alongside randomised controlled trials in health care. The course is aimed at those with no, or little, previous training in health economics and will involve a mixture of formal presentations and practical computer-based sessions. The aim of the course is to provide participants with the knowledge and skills necessary to:

Seminar March 2015

Professor Karl Claxton from the University of York presented at NUI Galway on March 6th 2015. The title of the presentation is: "Methods for Estimating the Cost Effectiveness Threshold for NICE and the NHS".

The Economics of Disability - Insights from Irish Research

New Book: The Economics of Disability - Insights from Irish Research

This new book, co-edited by Dr. John Cullinan and published by Manchester University Press, brings together research relating to the economics of disability in Ireland. It addresses a range of issues of relevance to the economic circumstances of people with disabilities, considering topics such as social inclusion, poverty, the labour market, living standards and public policy. It also considers issues of specific relevance to children, working-age adults and older people with disabilities, providing important evidence that can help improve disability policies, services and supports. Each chapter presents a clear and relatively non-technical treatment of the specific topic under consideration, making it accessible to a greater number of interested readers. In doing so, it provides an important addition to our knowledge and understanding of the economics of disability and will serve as a useful and up-to-date resource for a range of interested parties both in Ireland and internationally.

Pricing Healthcare Conference 2014

The Health Economics and Policy Analysis research group hosted a conference on the role of health economic evaluation in healthcare resource allocation on November 4 2014. The aim of the conference, which was organised with the Market Access and Health Outcomes group in Novartis Ireland, was to bring together academics and key stakeholders to discuss the role of health economic evaluation in Ireland.

Please follow the links below for the presentations from selected speakers:

HRB Leader Award 2014

Professor Ciaran O’Neill from the Health Economics and Policy Analysis group was recently awarded a HRB Research Leader grant. Professor O’Neill is one of six senior academics selected as HRB Research Leaders as part of an €9 million investment to address strategic gaps and leadership capacity in population health and health services research in Ireland. The research programme seeks to deliver relevant and timely evidence that can be used in health care decision making in Ireland. Professor O'Neill's research programme will focus on improving the national infrastructure to enable accurate counting and comparison of the costs and cost effectiveness of health services in Ireland. The award will create numerous new research positions in Health Economics at NUI Galway to support the work programme.

New Lecturer in Health Economics 2014

Dr Edel Doherty was recently appointed as Lecturer in Health Economics at NUI Galway. Dr Doherty's primary research and methodological interests lie in the application of discrete choice experiment methodology and the econometric analysis to examine questions in health and health care. Dr Doherty's appointment further enhances and expands the expertise base at the Health Economics and Policy Analysis group.

Seminar February 2014

Dr. Anne Nolan presented a seminar at NUI Galway on February 28th titled: Public Healthcare Eligibility and the Utilisation of GP Services by Older People in Ireland

Dr. Nolan is the Research Director of The Irish Longitudinal Study on Aging (TILDA). She joined TILDA in September 2013 on secondment from the Economic and Social Research Institute. Her main research interest is health economics, with a particular focus on healthcare financing and access, socio-economic inequalities in health, and Irish health policy. She has published numerousarticles on these topics in journals such as Social Science and Medicine, Economic and Social Review, Health Economics, Policy and Law, and Health Economics.

Seminar January 2014: Economics of Obesity Conference

The Health Economics and Policy Analysis group hosted a one day conference on the Economics of Obesity on January 17th 2014.

Cancer Research Website Launch

The Economics of Cancer Research Group website has officially been launched. The website was established to bring together researchers interested in the area of the economics of cancer both in Ireland and internationally. For further information, please see:

Seminar April 2012

Professor Eamon O'Shea presented on 'Reforming Health Production in Ireland' at the Critical Issues in Irish Society Network's annual conference in April 2012 at UCD. The following link is for the video of Dr Basu's presentation:

Seminar March 2012

October 2013

Professor John Mullaghy from the University of Wisconsin-Madison visited NUI Galway in October 2013. Below is a picture of John with members of the Health Economics and Policy Analysis group and students from the MSc in Health Economics:

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